World: Encouraging Returns

It is not only some of the Delta's youthful Red warriors who are giving
up the fight. Last week the Saigon government proudly presented the
highest-ranking defector ever to come over to the Allied side. He was
North Vietnamese Lieut. Colonel Le Xuan Chuyen, 37, a 20-year veteran
of the Communist wars, who until his defection last Aug. 2 was deputy
chief of staff and director of operations of the Viet Cong's 5th
Division, with responsibilities equivalent to those of a U.S. brigadier
general.